Halloween

Hey everyone! Welcome back. This will be my first blog post that has nothing to do with Alaska or for school. This is still part of my grade, but I get to write about something different this time. Just an FYI, I have a new blog called, English At AHS 2, and the URL is: http://www.eaahs2.blogspot.com. I made this blog because I had a major problem with my account on google and blogger and i got tired of trying to fix it, so I just got a new account and blog. Another reason is because I got a major headache, so anyways, you guys can still visit my old blog at: http://www.eaahs.blogspot.com, or you can come to my new blog. Everything is the same, I still post something every week, and I will still post on my old blog just in case people didn't get the memo. So now after I said all this, lets listen to my blog about Halloween.

Halloween is a time when witches, ghosts, vampires, goblins, and other magical creatures come out to play. Some are good like Casper the Friendly Ghost, and others are evil like The Wicked Witch of the West. On this special night, these creatures come out to play with the mortals. The mortals don't know they are there because they too look like these creatures. Every night on Halloween, the mortals dress up in costumes like these creatures and go out to trick-or-treat. While these mortals are out trick-or-treating, the creatures decides on their own way of having fun. The witches, good or bad, are brewing their potions, the vampires are sucking blood from the humans, the goblins are terrorizing everybody in sight. All the creatures are finding some ways to have fun on their only day in the Mortal Realm. You see, there are 2 different realms in the universe, the Mortal Realm and the Divine Realm.

The Mortal Realm is the place where we humans are living. The Divine Realm is a place where the Gods, Lesser Gods, Immortals, and Creatures live. Every year, on Halloween night, the portal between the Mortal and Divine Realms open for the creatures to cross. At the stroke of midnight the portal closes and those who had failed to cross back have to live in the Mortal Realm until Halloween night the next year. The portal only opens for the creatures on Halloween night every year. For the Gods, they have the power to cross over whenever they want. The Lesser Gods can only cross over during the equinoxes. Some Immortals, like the Dragons, can cross over whenever they like, but for others like the Stormwings, can only cross over with the aid of another being, whether it's during an equinox with a Lesser God, or on Halloween night with the creatures, they do not have the power to cross over on their own. Since I have exceeded my word limit, I must stop my story for now. For those who want to hear more, please comment telling me you want more. If no one comments, then I will write about something else for my blog post next week. Also don't forget to check off what you thought about my story so far at the bottom of this post. Your choices are: funny, cool, O.K., or boring. Until then, see ya!

My Alaskan Cruise 2009 Part 1 1/2: Juneau, Alaska (Bus Ride Stories)

Hey everyone! Thanks for coming back. I know, my vacation is over. I'm so sad, but here are some of the stories I forgot to tell you when I was in Juneau. Remember the lady the bus driver forgot? Yeah, that was my favorite. That was the funniest story on that bus ride, so if you get bored, just tell me and I will talk about something else next time. Just go to the bottom of this post later and check off what you thought about it, or leave a comment. Your choices are: Funny, Cool, O.K., or Boring. Make sure to do the same with my previous blog posts. Now here is one of my stories.

One of the stories the bus driver told us was about a golden eagle statue that was ordered around the same time Florida ordered their golden pelican statue. When they got the statues, Alaska got the golden pelicans while Florida got the eagles. They did some investigations and found that the orders were mixed up. Alaska tried asking Florida for their eagle statue, but Florida said, " No. Your eagle statue is beautiful. We're going to keep it. You guys are just going to have to keep the pelican statue." This was funny because now there is a pelican statue in Alaska even though Alaska doesn't even have pelicans. Now it is sitting outside of a very important building which I forgot what it was called. Sorry. If you're ever in Florida, check out Alaska's eagles. If your ever in Juneau, Alaska, check out Florida's pelicans. Here is a picture of an eagle:


My next story is about a salmon hitting a jet. I'm talking about a salmon hitting a jet, not the other way around. Anyway, the jet that the salmon hit is a kind of plane where it can still fly with only one engine. This means that the people on that plane were extremely lucky because an eagle went down near the water and caught a salmon. It headed toward the trees to eat it's prey when an engine of a jet scared the eagle and it dropped it's pray. The engine broke because the salmon got sucked into the engine. That was the only recorded record of a salmon hitting a jet. Isn't that interesting? That's about all the stories I know, so thank you for spending your precious time reading these post about my Alaskan Cruise. Please come back next week to see what I'm writing about next because I'm not sure myself. Until then, see ya!

My Alaskan Cruise 2009 Part 5:Victoria, British Columbia

Hi everyone! Thanks for coming back and reading part 5 of The Alaskan Cruise. My next stop after Ketchikan, Alaska is Victoria, British Columbia. This is my last stop before I return to Seattle, Washington. At this stop, my family and I ate dinner before we got off the ship. We stayed here for only a few hours because the ship had to leave to make it back to Seattle's port on time. So after we ate dinner, we got off the ship and got on a bus to Chinatown. On the way there we past by this beautiful lit up building. I think it was a castle or a museum. I just know it was beautiful. We tried to take a picture, but since it was dark and we were moving, the picture turned into lines. But there's a picture from the Internet at the bottom of the post.

After we got off the bus, we started walking around to visit all the shops. Since it was getting late, most of the shops already closed for the night. We weren't exactly in Chinatown yet. We had to walk a "few" blocks until we saw the Chinatown sign.

It looks like the picture at the bottom of this post.

We took some pictures under it then we continued to walk around. After a hour or so, we got back onto a bus and went back to the ship. I'm pretty sure your wondering what my cruise ship looks like since I didn't show you a picture of it in the past 4 parts. Here is a picture of it I got off the web at the bottom of this post.

And here's a picture of the Amsterdam Cruise Ship following us at the bottom of this blog.

So after we got back onto the ship, we went to our staterooms to pack our bags. After we finished, my sister and two step-brothers, and I went to see our friends to say good-bye to some of them while the others that were still awake, played hide-and-go-seek with us all night or until a security guard came and said, "You better leave or I'm going to call your parents and have them 'collect' you." After he left we were like, "We're not collectibles, we're human beings." There is a picture of the room at the bottom of this post.

Then we went somewhere else and started walking around. After a while, our group turned into a group of 6, so we went to Deck 14 to play Truth or Dare. We played until morning. We had an early breakfast since we were already up. After breakfast, we said our final good-byes and went to find our parents. After they left, we got off the boat, went to the airport and went back home. This is the end of The Alaskan Cruise, I hope you liked it. Please come back and read about the other stories I didn't tell you about in Juneau, Alaska. Until then, see ya!








(They are by the Ice Wall that we just passed.)


(This is the room we were playing in)

My Alaskan Cruise 2009 Part 4:Ketchikan, Alaska

Hi everyone! Thanks for coming back and reading part 4 of The Alaskan Cruise. My next stop after Tracy Arm Fjord is Ketchikan, Alaska. All we did was visit most of their shops. They had a lot of stuff. We even got these glass ornaments with pictures of the places in Ketchikan for free. I just loved them. We even got these free topaz necklaces. You should have seen it. We met up with my step-dad's best friend's wife and told her about the necklaces and she went all crazy trying to convince her husband to let her go get them. I was laughing so hard. After we said our good-bye's, we continued shopping. Every time we went into a shop with plush huskies, my little half-sister, Ashley would go all crazy. She LOVES dogs. She would tell my mom to take a picture of her with them. It wasn't just dogs though, it was EVERY animal she saw. It was a giant polar bear, a black bear, a killer whale. There were so many of them standing outside of stores that it took forever to leave. And if we don't take a picture, she would cry until we finally took the picture. After we were done and it was almost time to go back to the ship, we went to get in line when we saw a carriage pulled by 2 horses. They were standing there letting people take pictures with them. There were also 2 huskies in the carriage. My little sister saw them and wanted a picture too. After we took our picture, we got back in line. The line was long, so my step-brother, Tyler, and I went ahead to stand with my cousin, Sandy, who was farther ahead in line. We waited forever until we finally got back onto the ship. Once back on the ship, we headed back to our staterooms to get ready for dinner, so I hope you liked it. Please come back and read about my last stop in Victoria, British Columbia, next week. Until then, see ya!

Tatum Blog Post

(3.) Some examples will highlight the process. Several years ago one of my students conducted a research project investigating preschoolers’ conceptions of[4] Native Americans. Using children at a local day care center as her participants, she asked these three- and four-year-olds to draw a picture of a Native American. Most children were stumped by her request. They didn’t know what a Native American was. But when she rephrased the question and asked them to draw a picture of an Indian, they readily complied. Almost every picture included one central feature: feathers. In fact, many of them also included a weapon—a knife or tomahawk—and depicted the person in violent or aggressive terms.

(4.) Though this group of children, almost all of whom were White, did not live near a large Native American population and probably had had little if any personal interaction with American Indians, they all had internalized an image of what Indians were like. How did they know? Cartoon images, in particular the Disney movie Peter Pan, were cited by the children as their number-one source of information. At the age of three, these children already had a set of stereotypes in place. Though I would not describe three-year-olds as prejudiced, the stereotypes to which they have been exposed become the foundation for the adult prejudices so many of us have.

I believe the children are not prejudice because it is not their fault the Indians in Peter Pan are violent. Disney is the one at fault because they made the Indians that way. The children just watch it. I mean, if there was a new show on, people will get curious and want to watch it. How should they know the Indians in the show were violent. I'll be honest. Peter Pan was one of my favorite Disney movie. I'm not saying all Indians are violent, but the Indians in Peter Pan were kinda violent, but they were trying to find their princess, Tiger Lily. After Peter Pan rescued Tiger Lily, they were nice except for the one big Indian who kept telling Wendy to go get fire wood. They may seem violent at first, but who wouldn't be mad if their child was taken away and they didn't know who took them? I would be mad. My final thought on this is that the Indians in Peter Pan are NOT violent, they were protective.